Penny Downie Movies

Lawrence, an aging, lonely civil servant falls for Gina, an enigmatic young woman. When he takes her to the G8 Summit in Reykjavik, however, their...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bill Nighy

David Tennant stars in a film of the Royal Shakespeare Company's award-winning production of Shakespeare's great play. Director Gregory Doran's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: David Tennant

Griff Rhys Jones stars as a writer on a popular television soap opera who falls in love with the show's leading lady but finds himself unable to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Griff Rhys Jones

Television drama based on the novel by Elizabeth Jane Howard. Author Daisy Langrish buys a tranquil country cottage as a bolt-hole from the pressures...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michael Kitchen

The story is about the murder of Venetia Aldridge, a QC (Queen's Council) in a London "Chambers" and a very ambitious barrister who has a track...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Roy Marsden

Deric Longden and his wife, Aileen, come to terms with the fact that his mother, Annie, is getting too old to live on her own. Annie suffers her...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Thora Hird

This is the story of Rodya Raskalnikov (Patrick Dempsey), an intellectual who is suspended from University and is living in poverty in 19th century...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Patrick Dempsey

A father can't afford to take his family on holiday so he forces them to spend a week in their basement. He sets up lounge chairs and paints palm...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dave Hill

Cicero, the future Consul of Rome, is just starting out as a trial lawyer in crime-ridden Rome where assassinations for political advantage and for...

Genre: History

Cast: Paul Rhys

Life and adventures of lord George Gordon Byron. BBC dramatization of the poet's final thirteen years

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jonny Lee Miller

A computer genius is confined to a penthouse after a car accident, with only a nurse to look after him. But the advanced computer systems designed to...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Gary Day

In early 20th century New York City, an impoverished socialite desperately seeks a suitable husband as she gradually finds herself betrayed by her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gillian Anderson

In London for the Prime Minister's funeral, Mike Banning discovers a plot to assassinate all the attending world leaders.

Genre: Action

Cast: Gerard Butler

Documentary about the life of the Bonzo Dog Band singer.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Penny Downie

Newly elected President Nelson Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Morgan Freeman

The mysterious death of an enigmatic young man newly arrived in the suburb of Wetherby releases the long-repressed, dark passions of some of its...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vanessa Redgrave

The corpse of a shabbily dressed young woman has been discovered in the mud flats of the Thames at low tide. Police assume she's a prostitute, but...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Rupert Everett

An account of the days of First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, in the immediate aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Natalie Portman

A young knight sets out to join King Richards crusaders. Along the way, he encounters The Black Prince who captures children and sells them as slaves...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Eric Stoltz

A group of ex-university students reunite to perform a Shakespeare play in a quaint English village.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Richard E. Grant

In 1998, an auction of the estate of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor causes great excitement. For one woman, Wally Winthrop, it has much more...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Abbie Cornish

Based on the true story of Robin, a handsome, brilliant and adventurous man whose life takes a dramatic turn when polio leaves him paralyzed.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Andrew Garfield

What happens when you pick up a hitchhiker? Michael, an American scriptwriter, soon finds out when he picks up an Englishman in the middle of a...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Emmett Scanlan